A young man who escaped from a gang's den has led to 20 suspects being detained for allegedly running a pyramid scheme.
Shanghai police said on Tuesday that the scam had gathered over 100 members Anthony Rendon Nationals Jersey , aged between 16 and 31, within six months.
They were recruited from out of town over the Internet and then brainwashed or coerced to join the scheme after paying up to tens of thousands of yuan to buy cosmetics that never materialized, police said.
The cosmetics were falsely claimed to be products from a biotech company. On the surface, the gang ran a jewelry firm with its own store, according to police.
Pyramid scheme in suburban Shanghai busted
Investigation started this month when one of the members escaped from the gang’s den Adam Lind Nationals Jersey , which was rented apartments in a residential complex in suburban Jinshan District, and reported what was happening to police.
The young man surnamed Li, who is from Jiangxi Province, said he came to Shanghai a few months ago intending to meet a girl who had contacted him on social networks and with whom he had fallen in love, but he ended up being entrapped in the pyramid scheme Adam Eaton Nationals Jersey , police said.
Li said he was coerced to buy 16 sets of alleged cosmetic products worth 2,800 yuan (US$420) each, using money borrowed from relatives, and then he was asked to bring his friends and relatives into the gang.
Similar stories were given by other members, some of whom were lured to Shanghai with the promise of “nice jobs Trea Turner Jersey ," according to the